Nova Patents
US7794271B2

Cable connector assembly with wire management member thereof

Summary by NHIP

Cable connector with grounding bar

The assembly connects wires to contacts within an insulative housing using a discrete spacer and a sandwiched grounding bar. Spring arms extend through spacer holes to contact the grounding bar, which is secured only at two ends while wire outer conductors solder to one face.

Claim Score by NHIP

Read claim 1, the broadest

Abstract

A cable connector assembly includes an insulator (1), a plurality of conductive terminals (2) held in the insulator, a plurality of wires (4), a spacer (3) and a metal shell (6, 7). Each wire comprises an inner conductor (41) conductively connecting with the terminals, and at least one of the wires is a coaxial cable (4a) which has a shielding braid layer (43) enclosing the corresponding inner conductor. The spacer is mounted on the insulator and used for supporting the wires. The spacer comprises an inner surface with thereof a plurality of slots (31) for receiving the responding wires and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, and a through-hole (32) is formed through the inner and outer surfaces. The metal shell is mounted on and covers the insulator. The spring finger (75) is formed integrate with the metal shell and extends inwards, and the spring finger passes through the through-hole to electrically connect with the shielding braid of the coaxial cable.

US7794271B2, drawing sheet 1
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Term

Projected expiry 23 May 2028.

  1. Priority
  2. Filed
  3. Granted
  4. Today
  5. Projected expiry

8 claims: 1 independent, 7 dependent

  1. 1
    Broadest claimClaim Score 45, average(NHIP)A cable connector assembly comprising:an insulative housing extending along a longitudinal direction and defining a plurality of passageways extending along a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction;a plurality of contacts disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively;a plurality of wires each defining an inner conductor, an inner insulator, an outer conductor and an outer insulator in sequence, said inner conductor being mechanically and electrically connected to the corresponding contacts, respectively;an insulative spacer discrete from but assembled to the housing and defining a plurality of slots each receiving the corresponding wires;a grounding bar being assembled to the housing and sandwiched between the spacer and the outer conductors of said wires;and a metallic shell assembled to the housing and covering said spacer with a plurality of spring arms extending through corresponding through holes in the spacer to 55 mechanically and electrically contact the grounding bar, wherein said grounding bar is secured to the housing only at two opposite ends of said grounding bar, and said outer conductors abut against and are soldered to only one face of said grounding bar.